SQL syntax error near WHERE clause

Question

Can anyone tell me what's wrong in this query?

<cfquery name="activesurveys">
      SELECT surveys.id,
             surveys.name,
             surveys.description,
      WHERE  surveys.active= 1
        AND  surveys.showinpubliclist= 1
     FROM 
             surveys
</cfquery>
<cfreturn activesurveys>

When I execute this code it gives this error:

"You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'WHERE surveys.active= 1 AND surveys.showinpubliclist= 1' at line 4"

Answer 1

I think your query should be:

SELECT surveys.id,
    surveys.name,
    surveys.description
FROM surveys
WHERE surveys.active= 1
    AND surveys.showinpubliclist= 1

Basically, there's a , after the last field you want to select, which is wrong, and also there's the fact that FROM goes after SELECT and before WHERE ...

Answer 2

You need to re-order your statement a bit. The FROM needs to be before the WHERE . And you have an extra comma after the last column in your SELECT . Should look something like this:

<cfquery name="activesurveys">
    SELECT surveys.id,
           surveys.name,
           surveys.description
    FROM  surveys
    WHERE surveys.active = 1
      AND surveys.showinpubliclist = 1
</cfquery>
<cfreturn activesurveys>

Answer 3

I don't know ColdFusion but the SQL Syntax is

SELECT surveys.id,
       surveys.name,
       surveys.description
FROM 
       surveys
WHERE  surveys.active= 1
       AND surveys.showinpubliclist= 1

Answer 4

Kill the comma from the end of the last column name "surveys.description," and move the FROM statement before WHERE clause. Like this

SELECT colname, colname, colname
FROM tablename

WHERE condition...